Statement by Bruno Moos

Every new home built in a subdivision will add one to four cars to our streets and highways, but our cities were not built for cars.
To accommodate city streets to car traffic, massive destructive interventions have destroyed livelihood and lifestyle and caused, as we well know by now, enormous damage to the environment.
We can only recuperate the cities or our living spaces by rethinking away from carbon dependent individual transit and change to comfortable, rapid and easily accessible public transit.
Starting by building the B-line in lower hamilton but very importantly, extend the system with A-line, preferably by tunneling up the escarpment to connect upper Hamilton to downtown and the airport to the GO station. A second north-south line parallel to the A-line should link upper to lower Hamilton in a walking distance of not more than 400m from the user.
Interest rates are at historic low, the best time to invest into the future. Infrastructural investments of this kind are meant for 100 years and more. There is plenty of time to amortise even huge investments over this period of time (as it happened in many parts of the world) and remember, people pay a user fee, not like driving on the road. Our future is not the danger of a financial indebtedness, our future is an unreparable damage to the environment and to the city unless we wake up now.

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